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- Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
- Studies in English Language
- Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Image Gallery
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Medical Discourse and Sociocultural Contexts 1500–1820
- Chapter 2 John Arderne’s Afterlife in Manuscript and Print
- Chapter 3 John Mirfield’s Gouernayl of Helþe
- Chapter 4 Surgical Handbooks Translated into Low German
- Chapter 5 Tracing the Early Modern John of Burgundy
- Chapter 6 The Plague in Southern Italy in 1815–1816
- Chapter 7 On Excitability
- Chapter 8 Systems and Centos
- Chapter 9 Medical Vocabulary in English Romantic Literature
- Chapter 10 Foreign Ingredients in Early and Late Modern English Recipes
- Chapter 11 Walter Bailey’s (1529–1593) Medical Genres
- Chapter 12 London Bills of Mortality of the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 13 Advertising Proprietary Medicines in Pamphlets
- Chapter 14 Persuasion in Hungarian Medical Recipes
- Chapter 15 Persuasion in Early Modern English Medical Recipes
- Chapter 16 Richard III
- Chapter 17 Images and Paratexts
- Preface to the Image Gallery
- Image Gallery
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - John Arderne’s Afterlife in Manuscript and Print
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
- Studies in English Language
- Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Image Gallery
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Medical Discourse and Sociocultural Contexts 1500–1820
- Chapter 2 John Arderne’s Afterlife in Manuscript and Print
- Chapter 3 John Mirfield’s Gouernayl of Helþe
- Chapter 4 Surgical Handbooks Translated into Low German
- Chapter 5 Tracing the Early Modern John of Burgundy
- Chapter 6 The Plague in Southern Italy in 1815–1816
- Chapter 7 On Excitability
- Chapter 8 Systems and Centos
- Chapter 9 Medical Vocabulary in English Romantic Literature
- Chapter 10 Foreign Ingredients in Early and Late Modern English Recipes
- Chapter 11 Walter Bailey’s (1529–1593) Medical Genres
- Chapter 12 London Bills of Mortality of the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 13 Advertising Proprietary Medicines in Pamphlets
- Chapter 14 Persuasion in Hungarian Medical Recipes
- Chapter 15 Persuasion in Early Modern English Medical Recipes
- Chapter 16 Richard III
- Chapter 17 Images and Paratexts
- Preface to the Image Gallery
- Image Gallery
- Index
- References
Summary
Arderne’s writings retained their popularity in both Latin and English after 1500, showing the artificiality of the supposed division between medieval and early modern. This chapter investigates surviving manuscripts made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, commissioned or owned by practising surgeons and medics, rather than by university teachers or scholars. These manuscripts were heavily illustrated within or alongside the text-block, reinforcing the textual bias towards visualisation and personal witness. As case studies, the chapter will also consider the single printing (1588) of Arderne’s writings on fistula in ano, edited by the barber surgeon John Read, and a manuscript owned c.1645–8 by the ship’s surgeon Walter Hamond, who reflected on the continued usefulness of Arderne’s surgical techniques and recipes, suggested some improvements, and also commented on the financial charges Arderne made for his services and their contemporary equivalents.
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- Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use, pp. 13 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022